User Services/Sync/SetupSyncNext

Overview

Here's where you find all things on setting up Firefox Accounts and New Sync

Please log any bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Services (component Server:Firefox Accounts)

Desktop FxA

Desktop Firefox Accounts Setup

• Get nightly desktop or android Firefox > 1/16/2014
  • http://nightly.mozilla.org/
• Launch Fx with new profile (run cmd for mac): /Applications/FirefoxNightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p
• enable FxA: in about:config context menu click and choose add pref:
  • identity.fxaccounts.enabled (as boolean)
  • set it’s value as true
• confirm the following Dev/Production configs are defined:
  • firefox.accounts.remoteUrl
  • identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri
  • services.sync.clusterURL
  • services.sync.tokenServerURI
• restart Nightly
• go into file menu Tools > Setup Sync
• Create Account
• Verify account via email
• See Sync logs or start a new firefox instance with different profile. profile manager

Mobile Android Firefox Setup

• current plan not available in FxNightly, coming soon.

FxA URLs

• Recommend using a test profile as this may corrupt your sync data, NOT recoverable.

Servers URLs

Dev URLs:

• Content Server: https://accounts.dev.lcip.org
• Auth Server: https://api-accounts.dev.lcip.org
• Scrypt Server: https://scrypt-accounts.dev.lcip.org
• Verifier: TBD

Corresponding Dev Configs for Firefox:

• identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri=https://api-accounts.dev.lcip.org/v1
• firefox.accounts.remoteUrl=https://accounts.dev.lcip.org/?service=sync
• services.sync.clusterURL = http://db1.oldsync.dev.lcip.org/
• services.sync.tokenServerURI = http://auth.oldsync.dev.lcip.org/1.0/sync/1.1

Stage URLs:

• Content server: https://accounts.stage.mozaws.net/
• Auth server: https://api-accounts.stage.mozaws.net/

Production URLs:

• Content server: accounts.firefox.com
• Auth server: api.accounts.firefox.com
• Scrypt server: scrypt.accounts.firefox.com
• Verifier: verifier.accounts.firefox.com (this one may be a little mushy)
  • https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/issues/295

Corresponding Production Configs for Firefox:

• TBD

Sync debugging - Desktop

• goto about:config
• search by 'sync.log'
• set services.sync.log.appender.file.level=Trace
• view logs here: about:sync-log

Useful Firefox Configs:

• services.sync.log.appender.file.logOnError=Yes
• services.sync.log.appender.file.logOnSuccess=Yes

Sync Debugging - Android

• TBD - add information here about using desktop/ADB or using logcat
• Mobile team will have lots of details

Sync Server Setup

• edwong's guess*

In about:config set this url:

• services.sync.jpake.serverURL
• services.sync.clusterURL
• services.sync.serverURL
• services.sync.syncKeyHelpURL